Making a Game: Tengen Toppa Katamari Damacy [V3]

[Pompmaker2]

http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1299333
I was inspired by the above picture and decided to use my Blender skills to make a Gurren Lagann Katamari game.

There were only two problems: I don't know how to use Blender's game engine and I don't know how to code Python.
Basically, I have no idea how to make a game.

A couple hours of fumbling about on the internet later, I came up with this:
http://youtu.be/jKE8VnKPp84

V2: Added Simon and made the camera track the ball and made the ball roll in the camera's direction
http://youtu.be/soI9lNkuwJI

V3: Made one level of the game. Roll up the Dai-Gunzan!

Video of V3
Download V3 (USE BLENDER 2.49 TO OPEN)

It's still quite buggy, and I'm not sure if I want to turn this into a full game project. I've never made a game before. Still, I think it's neat.
Time taken: ~22 days

That is all.
Naaa nanana nana na na na naa naa nana ROLL ROLL FIGHT THE POWAH

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[Demian]

1. How to make the katamari turn without screwing up its rolling

What exactly do you mean by that?

2. How to make blocks attach to the katamari based on size

Uhhh you obviously already have block attaching working so all you need is a simple if check before attaching a block?

Code: [Select]

if block.size <= player.size
attachBlock(block)

[Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph]

this is beautiful

[Pompmaker2]

V2 bump

[ForgetLavender]

What engine do you use? This looks pretty swell for how early it is.

[Pompmaker2]

What engine do you use? This looks pretty swell for how early it is.

It's Blender's inbuilt game engine. I've put about 8 hours of work into it.

[ForgetLavender]

It's Blender's inbuilt game engine. I've put about 8 hours of work into it.

Blender has a game engine?
What language does that use? woah

[Pompmaker2]

Blender has a game engine?
What language does that use? woah

It uses python, like Blender itself does. The physics system is Bullet Physics.

[Pompmaker2]

V3 Bump
One level completed

[Folie à Deux]

This post really inspires me to make something as well. Good job.

[Flamecannon]

If there's no Katamari On the Funk Cross Libera Me mix anywhere I could try it if that helps out

[Pompmaker2]

If there's no Katamari On the Funk Cross Libera Me mix anywhere I could try it if that helps out

oooh yes that would help
Do it do it do it
I tried myself but I have no music sense

[Folie à Deux]

Friend are you planning to add shaders? (is that possible in Blender?)

[Pompmaker2]

Friend are you planning to add shaders? (is that possible in Blender?)

Not for the game engine it's not

[Rigel]

Not for the game engine it's not

It'd look so much better once you could.